Make mention of Scottish lake monsters to most people and doing so will inevitably conjure up imagery of the world’s most famous, unknown water beast, the Loch Ness Monster. It’s a little known fact, however, that there are more than a few Scottish lakes with legends of diabolical creatures attached to them. While many of those…

We escape the flood damaged Sydney studio this week and travel to the East with our make shift portable setup. Tune in to discover our “mystery location”, travel hijinks, and Robots! This episode is exclusive to Plus+ members. To join, click HERE. Links Could our ancestors see blue? Ancient people didn’t perceive the colour because they…

Alaska is big. At 663,300 square miles, it’s about the size of Germany, Poland, and France. To put its size into perspective, if Alaska were a sovereign nation, it would be the 18th largest country on the planet. This picturesque state is filled with scenic (if not cold) ocean views, thick forests, the highest mountains…

Deserts are stark, barren places that seem to be natural habitats for the spooky and supernatural. With their vast expanses of sand, scrub, and unchanging, desolate surroundings, deserts seem to lie somewhere in another realm beyond time and reality. They are scary places, remote, deadly, and remorseless, posing challenges for life that has evolved there and…

Death, it seems is an immutable fact of life. We are tethered to it, destined for it, and indeed fearful of it. Throughout history mankind has sought to cheat this inevitable end. It seems we have a very strong urge to stave of death’s grip or at least in some cases to return from it. There…

There’s absolutely no doubt that today, across the entire planet, whole swathes of the population have become obsessed with - and fascinated by - all-things of a zombie nature. And there’s no doubt that much of that same obsession and fascination has resulted from the phenomenal success of The Walking…

Once upon a time, there were no such things as a podcasts, there were only a handful of television channels available for viewing, and if you made a movie the only place to see it was in a movie theater. Back in those days the subjects like…

As incredible as it may sound, in 1967 – which, bear in mind, was still the height of the Cold War – British authorities made a secret approach to the highest echelons of the former Soviet Union’s military. It was an approach that revolved around nothing less than Unidentified…

If you want to talk about ill-regarded sequels, dissecting the slasher movie genre is like shooting fish in a barrel. I may have mentioned this particular bugbear before and this probably will not be the last time, but who can forget (despite our best efforts) the preposterous…

In 1983, Stephen King’s acclaimed novel, Pet Sematary, was published. As the title suggests, it told of dark and malevolent activity in a Maine, USA pet-cemetery. Six years later, in 1989, the book was turned into a movie, for which punk rock gods, the mighty Ramones, provided the theme-tune. Of course,…

In the night the world reveals its second nature and weird things stir and start to wander. Strange shapes hide in architectural and unlit dead zones. As has been done for centuries, darkness reawakens terrible presences in those places. Whether a hedge, fence or row of abandoned…

There is one major obstacle in the way of humanity’s path to its theoretical fate of technological singularity, and that obstacle lies between two human ears and is prone to coming unglued when saturated with high levels of intelligence. I never really thought about any correlation between…

New energy revolutions powered by freakin lasers warm us up to discuss the hidden electrical power of Sasquatch as one researcher recounts being “zapped” by the hairy cryptid. We then hear the tale of one Bigfoot hunter who managed to pull the trigger on the big guy….

If you are someone who is adamantly of the opinion that there are grounds for belief in the general UFO phenomenon, then chances are good your beliefs have been challenged at one point or another. Some people engage in such challenges and provide what they believe to…

Greetings, fellow Coppertops! Here we are in the middle of October, yet still the Fortean Matrix is delivering a smorgasbord of weird stories to sate your paranormal appetite. We’ll research the tactics of Guerrilla Skepticism & theories of Theological Conspiracies; we’ll analyze the cure of Alzheimer’s in…

Well, it’s very clear that after reading my most recent article – Where are the UFOs? – many people took what I actually wrote totally out of context. That is abundantly obvious from the dozens of comments that now follow the article. Despite what some incorrectly said, I did…